<p>Reposted from France24: <a href="http://www.france24.com/en/20130406-greek-e-ticket-ad-riles-gays-truckers" target="_blank">http://www.france24.com/en/20130406-greek-e-ticket-ad-riles-gays-truckers</a></p><p>A Greek e-ticket ad will be withdrawn from television after managing to insult both the country's truckers and its gay community, top-selling Ta Nea daily said on Saturday. </p><p>In the ad that aired this past month, a young hitchhiker boards a trailer truck hoping to reach Turin.</p><p> </p><p>As soon as the door shuts behind him, the driver flicks a switch, a neon-lit pink divan with cuddly bears and pillows appears in the recess of the cabin, and he blows the passenger a suggestive kiss.</p><p> </p><p>&quot;Do you want to travel cheaply, and end up paying for it dearly?&quot; concludes the ticket ad.</p><p> </p><p>&quot;You have ridiculed Greek truckers brutally and without provocation,&quot; the haulers' association said in a complaint filed against the e-ticket company, airfasttickets.</p><p> </p><p>&quot;You have created an insult that will stay in viewers' minds far longer than your company's name or website,&quot; it added.</p><p> </p><p>Meanwhile, the main Greek association representing homosexuals also complained that the ad typecast gay men.</p><p> </p><p>&quot;Gay men are presented as devious and sex-obsessed people trying to seduce unsuspecting youths,&quot; the OLKE association said.</p><p> </p><p>&quot;Once again, the easy road of homophobia and stereotypes is chosen to advertise products,&quot; it said.</p><p> </p><p>The travel group produced a new version of the ad, in which the driver keeps a skull and electric candles in the back of the cabin and wants to take a detour through the Carpathian mountains.</p><p> </p><p>Once again, truck drivers were not amused.</p><p> </p><p>&quot;The new ad presents us as necrophiliacs. We will file a complaint about this one too,&quot; trucker president Apostolos Kenanidis told Ta Nea.</p>